Dunadd is one of the oldest if not the oldest stronghold in Argyll. It overlooks the plains of Knapdale around Kilmartin from the rock on which it was build making use of the natura rocky surface.

There is a stone just as the lia fail - the stone of Destiny - on which the ancient gaelic kings of Dal Riata, then the name of what we know as Argyll (= land of the gael) were crowned. The stone shows a footprint, some ogham-letters and a carving of a boar. The stone can be seen in the picture below (3rd from left).

Not much of the dun itself is left but the rocks that supported it's defence.

The name Dunadd means fort on the river Add and indeed the river is very near by.

Further information about the dun is e. g. provided at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunadd.

Castles I visited
Edinburgh Castle Eilean Donan Castle Duntulm Castle Dunvegan Castle Dunrobin Castle Cawdor Castle Blair Castle, Blair Atholl Braemar Castle Bishop's Palace, Kirkwall Strome Castle Castle Knock Caisteal Maol - Castle Moil, Skye
Edinburgh Eilean Donan Duntulm Dun Bheagan Dunrobin Cawdor Blair Atholl Braemar Kirkwall Strome Knock Moil
Armadale Castle Castle Mey Stirling Castle Tantallon Castle Thurso Castle Earl's Palace, Birsay Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney Balmoral Castle Stuart Castle - Grampian Corgarff Castle Castle Stalker Ackergill Tower - Caithness
Armadale Mey Stirling Tantallon Thurso Birsay Kirkwall Balmoral Stuart Corgarff Stalker Ackergill Tower
Inverness Castle Balvenie Castle - Dufftown Loch Lomond Castle - Balloch Dun Sciath - Sleat, Isle of Skye Kilravock Castle near Cawdor Bishop's Palace - Elgin Keiss - the old Castle Keiss - the new Castle Castle Girnigoe - Caithness Castle Sinclair - Caithness Urquhart Castle, Drumnadrochit Old Wick Castle
Inverness Balvenie Loch Lomond Dun Sciath Kilravock Castle Elgin old Keiss new Keiss Girnigoe Sinclair Urquhart Old Wick
Carbisdale Castle Castle Tongue Kilberry Castle Castle Tarbert Stonefield Castle, near Tarbert Saddell Torisdale Skipness Carnasserie Dunadd Dunstaffnage Castle Barcaldine
Carbisdale Tongue Kilberry Tarbert Stonefield Sadell Torisdale Skipness Carnasserie Dunadd Dunstaffnage Barcaldine
Lochranza, Arran Dunaverty Castle Inveraray Castle Kilchurn Castle Ruthven Barracks Fort William Fort Augustus Fort George
Brodick Lochranza Dunaverty Inveraray Kilchurn Ruthven Barracks Fort William Fort Augustus Fort George


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